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6/9/2014

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This was what I saw first, and wanted to make into a cottage garden.

The tidier garden 6 months later. You can see the side of the 'cottage' and the same clothesline in the distance.

A year later and it's the third day of spring. The garden is ready to bloom. The gravel path leads to the olive grove.

The photos below are of the sides of the main path that leads to an 1860 olive grove, past the 1856 almond tree in the distance.

This leads towards the main house.

The old shed, before.

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Beaumont House is a South Australian National Trust home built in 1839. I used to walk past the place often and think to myself that someone ought to do something about the garden.

In my head I shifted plants and weeded and plotted. I did that for a lot of the gardens I walked past but those gardens were owned by people and I couldn't weed for them. Or, I wouldn't.

Anyway, I finally plucked up the courage to send a design plan for the part of the garden I could see from the outside boundary. I eventually got an email answer telling me I was welcome to join the garden volunteers and start working on my plan.

I have taken various before and after photos in the past year. This garden, like all gardens, is an ongoing project.

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